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Gemini PDA - Android / New Gemini App: Airmail. Looks nice.

« on: December 19, 2018, 11:53:30 am »

I can certainly understand that given the Gemini is meant somewhat as a Psion replacement it is attractive to try and replicate and improve on the simplicity and functionality of the Psions.  What might have been, indeed, without the Motorola fiasco.   This explains Agenda and Data but rather less so for Airmail as Psion did not really get into e-mail.

Ah ?
I actually used the e-mail application a lot on the 5mx (with the brand new Nokia 7110 over IR) and it only got better on the netBook, with the larger screen, keyboard and wifi.

I actually used the netBook well past its 'due time', up until 2016. It was very good to produce a quick e-mail.

Airmail reminds me of this. Fold the device open and just start typing. The interface is rather similar to the Psion application, but this one can actually read full HTML e-mails and their attachments.

I stand corrected.  I never used the email with my Netbook as I did not have a portable modem.  You beat me in using a physical Netbook as the various machines I had (from Ebay etc) kept going wrong due to the (dreaded) screen cable becoming damaged.  I probably stopped in 2014.   I am still using the Emulator version for Agenda and abp5 the banking program but really should stop copying the entries to Google and thence to K9 or Airmail every so often but take the plunge and give up Agenda - much as I like its ease of use.

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Gemini PDA - Android / New Gemini App: Airmail. Looks nice.

« on: December 15, 2018, 08:53:52 am »

I can certainly understand that given the Gemini is meant somewhat as a Psion replacement it is attractive to try and replicate and improve on the simplicity and functionality of the Psions.  What might have been, indeed, without the Motorola fiasco.   This explains Agenda and Data but rather less so for Airmail as Psion did not really get into e-mail.

I have tried Airmail and am puzzled that it seems, at least to me, not as good as the K9 original.  K9  has been working very nicely in landscape format on my Gemini whilst I waited in anticipation for Airmail but Airmail does not seem to do anything which K9 does not and what it does do seems often not to perform as well.  With K9 I can cut down the message depth to give me 6 at a time viewing whereas I only get 4 with Airmail.   I do not understand why there is a top and bottom bar using up screen space on Airmail when K9 only has one at the bottom.

So, a good idea to do a Gemini specific version of K9 but I am puzzled why Planet has not produced version which is recognisably better for the Gemini.  Perhaps I am missing something.   I would have expected publicity or an ‘about’ sheet to have told me what was better or different, but documentation seems lacking.